Larry Miller remembers one moment clearly when, as a 38-year-old, he was weighing whether or not to accept the nomination to lead Mennonite World Conference. The year was 1988, 23 years ago, and he was sitting in a university library in Strasbourg, France, where he lived.

Before the magnitude-7 earthquake struck Haiti almost two years ago, Ronald Sadou Zami struggled to find work. Like many Haitians, he had discovered multiple ways to earn minimal income – he wrote poems for schools, was a sewing machine mechanic and sometimes did masonry work.

Rumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You’ve Only Heard AboutAuthors: Darren Whitehead & Jon TysonThey were exchanging stories about their night at the stripper’s, and complaining about how weak the marijuana was on a recent trip to Amsterdam. I was at the next table over, doing my best not to be distracted. I had stopped in at this Vancouver restaurant, hoping to finish the last few chapters of a book which, at that moment, felt even more pertinent: Rumors of God.

The Gospel Commission: Recovering God’s Strategy for Making DisciplesAuthor: Michael HortonWe are very familiar with the famous words of Jesus known as the great commission (Matthew 28:18–20). For nearly 2,000 years, the command to “make disciples” has motivated Christians to share their faith with others.

With dignified humility, Edouarnus Estivil calls himself a direct victim of the January 2010 earthquake: it destroyed his Port-au-Prince home, paralyzed his sister, and killed his mother, the head of his household.

Dysfunctional: The Rick Langlais StoryAuthor: Andrew Fehr with Rick LanglaisDysfunctional is the non-fiction account of Rick Langlais’ life story. The reader follows the founder and president of Saskatoon’s Hands On Street Ministries through an early childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood filled with extreme violence, abuse, drugs, and alcohol.

I’m a bit of a self-help junkie. I especially enjoy popular business books about goal setting and achieving amazing results. All there in black and white, it looks so simple. Set a goal, stick to that goal, measure your results, then set the next goal.

The board of faith and life (BFL) of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches concluded its first look at a “work in progress,” a task force report proposing measures the BFL can take to work more closely with the conference’s executive board. The report was one of the major items on the agenda at the BFL’s fall meeting in Kitchener, Ont., Oct. 25–26.

Mennonite Brethren leaders from across Canada met in Kitchener, Ont., Oct. 27–29, 2011, for a biennial study, rooted in the Anabaptist tradition of seeking Bible-based clarity and meaning for contemporary…